The Failure to Prevent World War I: The Unexpected ArmageddonWorld War I represents one of the most studied, yet least understood, systemic conflicts in modern history. At the time, it was a major power war that was largely unexpected. This book refines and expands points made in the author’s earlier work on the failure to prevent World War I. It provides an alternative viewpoint to the thesis of Christopher Clark, Fritz Fischer, Paul Kennedy, among others, as to the war's long-term origins. By starting its analysis with the causes and consequences of the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War and the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, the study systematically explores the key geostrategic, political-economic and socio-cultural-ideological disputes between France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia, Japan, the United States and Great Britain, the nature of their foreign policy goals, alliance formations, arms rivalries, as well as the dynamics of the diplomatic process, so as to better explain the deeper roots of the 'Great War'. The book concludes with a discussion of the war's relevance and the diplomatic failure to forge a possible Anglo-German-French alliance, while pointing out how it took a second world war to realize Victor Hugo’s nineteenth-century vision of a United States of Europe-a vision now being challenged by financial crisis and Russia's annexation of Crimea. |
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... fleets of submarines also kept the use of the ultimate naval weapon in check, so that the Dreadnought—as a so-called deterrent to war—was only used at the brief Battle of Jutland (31 May–1 June 1916). That battle, in turn, led Germany ...
... fleets of submarines also kept the use of the ultimate naval weapon in check, so that the Dreadnought—as a so-called deterrent to war—was only used at the brief Battle of Jutland (31 May–1 June 1916). That battle, in turn, led Germany ...
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... fleet” was, like the French fleet, located in close proximity), London's primary fear was that Berlin could eventually align with another major naval and land power (most likely Russia, but possibly France as well)—thus augmenting its ...
... fleet” was, like the French fleet, located in close proximity), London's primary fear was that Berlin could eventually align with another major naval and land power (most likely Russia, but possibly France as well)—thus augmenting its ...
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Contents
Origins of the FrancoPrussian | |
Global Consequences of the FrancoPrussian | |
French Calls for Revanche and Bismarcks Nightmare of Coalitions | |
British Intervention in Egypt and the Threat of a Continental Alliance | |
Bismarcks Strategy and AngloGerman Alliance Talks | |
The Failure of Caprivis New Course | |
Year of AngloGerman Alienation | |
The Failure of AngloGerman Alliance Talks | |
Britains Quest for New Allies | |
The AngloGerman Détente and Eurasian Conflicts | |
The Question of AlsaceLorraine | |
Stumbling into Armageddon | |
The Failure to Prevent World War I | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Index | |
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